Emma Hill Video
Portland songstress Emma Hill stopped off at the Tower Theatre last weekend to celebrate the release of her new disc, Clumsy Seduction, along with her band, thus creating Emma Hill and Her Gentlemen Callers. Hill played both older material and cuts from the new disc showing how she’s risen from simple girl-with-a-guitar to a Neko…
Metolius: All Over but the Whining?
In a rather curious editorial this morning, The Bulletin seemed to concede it has lost the fight to bring destination resorts to the Metolius Basin - but it wasn't about to let the issue drop without one last parting whine.
Next in Line for Extinction: The Phone Book?
The printed newspaper already looks like it's headed the way of the brontosaurus. Now a liberal blogger and a couple of state legislators want to condemn the printed phone book to the same fate.
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad S-Word?
File under "Just When You Thought They Couldn't Get Any Nuttier": Some Republican state party leaders are putting pressure on the Republican National Committee to officially label the Democrats a "socialist party."
Last Night’s Comedy
If you weren’t one of the folks who crammed themselves into the second level stage of the Summit last night, you missed a wacky comedy show straight from Los Angeles. Redmond native Randy Liedtke hosted and headlined a homecoming show that was opened by Kyle Kinane – a guy Liedtke refered to as his "favorite…
Bend Population: A Hidden Exodus?
For the second time this year, The Bulletin has carried a story that seems aimed at dispelling persistent speculation that people are moving away from Bend in droves.
The Spitter
There are some things that are never OK, for example spitting on the floor in a public place. I make reference to the gentleman on Saturday night who convincingly hucked a huge loogie high into the air so that it landed in a slimy spat in the middle of the bar area. Instantaneously, I told…
Home at Last: Chloe at FivePine shines in its new digs
Dishes go global at Chloe. In the year and a half that Chloe was open in Redmond, the restaurant gained a considerable reputation and loyal following despite its strip-mall location. Chef Jerry Phaisavath and his wife Elaine, however, sought a new space that would be more compatible with what they envisioned, where they could take…
Home at Last: Chloe at FivePine shines in its new digs
Dishes go global at Chloe. In the year and a half that Chloe was open in Redmond, the restaurant gained a considerable reputation and loyal following despite its strip-mall location. Chef Jerry Phaisavath and his wife Elaine, however, sought a new space that would be more compatible with what they envisioned, where they could take…
My Dog’s No Outlaw
My dog likes to hike and bike as much as I do. The one-size-fits-all leash laws punish all for the actions of a few. Not to mention that putting dogs on-leash does not necessarily quell the worries over unruly dogs. The dogs that killed Diane Whipple in San Francisco were on-leash, returning from a walk…
We Don’t Need No Hatchery: Inaugural steelhead festival comes to Old Mill
The Bucket brings a wild fish to hand in the high desert. You don't have to be a wader-clad and sleep-deprived steelhead fisherman to know that there is something missing in the waters of our once-teeming Northwest rivers, but it doesn't hurt.
Steelhead, the iconic fish that once proliferated in rivers from the Oregon…
Cry Wolf: Wolves to be de-listed…Is that really a good idea?
Editors note: This is the first in a two-part essay about the proposal to remove wolves from the federal Endangered Species List.
Preparing for life on the De-List?Well, it sounds like those ranchers in Wyoming who shot and killed the ("misbehaving") wolves that (allegedly) killed their livestock (and immediately posted photos to prove what…
May Days: Mountain biking and PPPing
April Shower bring May Flowers-as well as mountain bike races and Pole Pedal Paddle.
WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY Mountain Biking season has arrived! The WebCyclery Cascade ChainBreaker Mountain Bike Race, the traditional opener in Central Oregon, is coming May 10. Yes, that's Mother's Day- last year, Barry Wicks brought his mom to the race. Beating the…
Stealth Wars: Newest Riddick delivers but doesn’t dazzle
Kill, Kill, Kill. Hunter or hunted? I can never tell.
Crawling through tight steel airducts, hesitating every time I hear a guard's voice, I feel like I did when I was escaping prison-hunted, fearful and sneaking in order to stay alive. But when I'm in a dark room with the mercenaries piloting this ship, who…
Shock Value: High Voltage cranks it up
Shock me baby…all night long.Crank: High Voltage is an adrenalized rollercoaster ride presented in overtly stylized hyper-surrealism. It's what the remakes of Death Race and Fast and Furious strived to be.
The original Crank lifted its concept from the classic D.O.A. starring Edmund O'Brien (re-made later with Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan). The…
Just Add Watergate: Political conspiracy thriller is paint-by-numbers, but effective
Journalists? They still have those?Think of all the things that people have seen with great repetition in their lives but for which we continue to crane our necks to glimpse again and again: Sunrises, sunsets, windstorms, the aftermath of car crashes, Seth Rogen movies, etc. In a way, State of Play is the film version…
Hardly Clumsy: Emma Hill boards her own bus
Emma Hill: Always up for a good disguise.The last time Emma Hill played Bend, she told us about touring the West Coast by bus - Greyhound bus that is. We caught up with Hill on the eve of the release of her new record and a release party at the Tower Theatre and learned that…
A Newly Polished Taxi
Take a look at that trimmed up Vince Herman. Never a bad time to polish up a taxi.
A Loud Experience: Back from SXSW, the Pink Snowflakes return to Bend
Sunshine, lollipops and plenty of feedback.The last time the Pink Snowflakes played in Bend, they brought their bubble machine madness to Players Bar and Grill for a set of the Portland band's quirky and loud-as-hell psychedelic rock. Back in town this weekend, the band has covered some new ground since the last visit, mainly in…
Confronting the Panhandler “Menace”
Remember how a couple of years ago our city leaders got themselves in a lather over graffiti? Now it seems the big menace to our peace and prosperity is panhandling.
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Oregon Reads Reception
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In a treat for the strong contingent of literary folks here in Bend, all three authors from the Oregon Reads project are featured in one event. Lauren Kessler, author of Stubborn Twig, is an account of three generations of Japanese Americans living in Oregon, will be on hand along with…
Facts vs. Faith
In Mike Epstein's bashing of the Jesus basher, Steve Humphrey, he asserts that St. Augustine argued God allowed Rome to become a great nation and did the same for the U.S. Neither Epstein or Augustine nor anyone else can prove this. It is merely Augustine's and Epstein's belief that this is so, not empirical fact.…
The Bike Brigade
Hey there to all you fellow riders out there, roadies, mounties and commuters. How about a biker coalition that patrols the roadways and the mountain biking trails? The purpose? We all get flats, have mishaps and need support - even medical aid. Out on the trails, such as Phil's Trail, a coalition would be wonderful…
Walking The Walk
I would like to send a tune of gratitude for a couple of un-sung heroes of our community. They will be moving on to new ventures and a life near Ashland. Richard Ziff and Helene Bisnaire are the owners and creators of "Of The Earth." They are taking a break after many years of building…
Shortsighted Solutions
I'm one of those reflexive anti-war guys, the type with one answer for everything. Stop the war. Bring the troops home from Iraq. Right now. Bring'em home from Afghanistan, too, and if you ask me, it's high time that the US ends its brutal occupation of North America, as well. When confronted with the notion…
Muddying The Waters: Mirror Pond sedimentation offers no easy solutions
Before event organizers moved the Pole Pedal Paddle upstream to the Old Mill in 2004 it wasn't unusual to spot frustrated canoeists and kayakers trying to free their boats from the muck that had gathered just inches underneath the surface of Mirror Pond. Today boaters know better than to venture out of the narrow channel…
“Green” Developers’ Scorched-Earth Tactics
To hear the developers of the Metolian tell it, they're the greenest, tree-huggingest, Earth-lovingest guys who ever walked the planet.
But the tactics the developers and their supporters have been employing look more like a scorched-earth policy. They seem to have adopted William Tecumseh Sherman as their role model instead of John Muir. A little…
Take A Memo: Our favorite interrogations, Chavez’s handshake, Cletus, and more
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from a garbage dump, after cleaning up cigarette butts, patchouli packaging, and signage from recent "Earth Day" events statewide, on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly. Waterboarded, How Many Times? "If you look at…
Leaving Downtown: Contemplating the end of an era and a dream
Mid-morning. Spring. A low gray sky. Snowflakes dive-bomb my windshield. I turn into the Mirror Pond parking lot. I pull into a slot on the south-end and turn off the ignition. Sitting under the park's white arbor are two punks in soiled white hooded sweatshirts, hoods up, shoulders hunched. One is smoking. Both are on…
